Classic Lyrics - Kanye West

1 [Sample] (Kanye)

2 And now for my next number,

3 I'd like to return to the cl-

4 to the cl-

5 to the classics (Classics)

6 (Timeless)

7 (Classic)

8 (I'm better than I've ever been, timeless)

9 Rakim, the fiend of the microphone

10 [Rakim]

11 Is y'all ready for Twenty-0-7, it's now another drought

12 Everyone's a killer, wow we buggin' out

13 Since '86 showin' the crowd what I'm about

14 And they still want to know when the album comin' out

15 Ask the teenagers, OGs and ask the kids

16 What they definition of classic is

17 Timeless, so age don't count in the booth

18 When your flow stays submerged in the fountain of youth

19 Ain't no doubtin' the truth I'm off the meters

20 Everybody co-signing even non-believers

21 Since I came in the door, became one of y'alls leaders

22 In the fresh pair of Air Force One sneakers

23 Uptown we call 'em uppies when they on divas

24 Prolly want what KRS-One teaches

25 Nas, made you look, before the haters

26 I bet you Kan had 'em on when he walked with Jesus

27 This is

28 Classic

29 I'm better than I've ever been

30 Timeless

31 I'm everywhere you've never been and better than I've ever been

32 Classic

33 I'm better than I've ever been

34 Timeless

35 (I-I-I'd like to return to the classics)

36 [Kanye West]

37 Kan-Kanye West

38 Can't buy this, superflyness, like a shyness, your highness

39 It's performin', look how long the line is

40 That's what happens when you make shit that's timeless

41 That's what happens these rappers is the pioneers

42 What do it take to be a legend like Nas is?

43 That's so novice, I'm so polished

44 I got a right to be a little bit snobbish

45 I did a little bit of college

46 Semesters it took 2 like Rob Base

47 To let me figure out this wasn't my place

48 The beat slowed 'til you listened to my pace

49 'Cause I be killin' shit, but that's evident

50 And y'all feelin' it, but I expected it

51 If it's classic it's gonna last forever than I'm everywhere you never been and better than I ever been

52 Classic

53 I'm better than I've ever been

54 Timeless

55 I'm everywhere you've never been and better than I've ever been

56 Classic

57 I'm better than I've ever been

58 Timeless

59 (All of 4th town represent to the fullest Nas and Rockwell)

60 [Nas:]

61 Perseverance, see the fake hustler rapper

62 To them it hurts to hear this

63 Oh you went platinum – yeah that's nice

64 Now let me see you do the same thing twice

65 3 times, 4 times, then been a couple of more times

66 Please your amateur night is show time

67 It's one life to live so live it the best you can

68 The world could use one less man

69 Not enough air

70 Not enough car factories to manufacture new vehicles sedans and vans

71 When they do make the whip you like ya chips ain't right

72 By the time you could afford it the car ain't important

73 In the streets silent, it's just I and - cops keep firin' (pow, pow, pow) in my environment

74 Leavin' you slump when they drive home far from the hood brothers they eager to jump on

75 I'd like to be the wall that they toast up on

76 I'd like to see them fall, guilty for doing wrong

77 I'm classic like the Air Ones, the Hustler shoe, that's what I'm accustomed to

78 Classic

79 I'm better than I've ever been

80 Timeless

81 I'm everywhere you've never been and better than I've ever been

82 Classic

83 I'm better than I've ever been

84 Timeless

85 (I-I-I'd like to return to the classics)

86 [KRS-One:]

87 (Of course we have, blast-master KRS-One)

88 How many y'all got criminal minded

89 You, you, you, y'all don't be blinded

90 Me, I got no jewels on my neck

91 Why? I don't need 'em I got your respect

92 KRS-One 20 years I rock I do it for JMJ and Scott LaRock –this hip hop

93 And we's a nation, don't you want to hear more KRS on your radio station?

94 Instead of broadcasting how we smokin' trees

95 On the radio we need to hear more local MC's

96 Where you at? Come on where you at?

97 This is the difference between MC'ing and rap

98 Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal

99 MC's spit rhymes to uplift they people

100 Peace, love, unity, havin' fun, these are the lyrics of KRS-One

101 Classic

102 I'm better than I've ever been

103 Timeless

104 I'm everywhere you've never been and better than I've ever been

105 Classic

106 I'm better than I've ever been

107 Timeless

108 (I-I-I'd like to return to the classics)